The catastrophe bond market index calculated by Swiss Re Capital Markets, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist arm of the global reinsurance firm, plummeted when priced on Friday, due to the potential impacts and losses cat bonds face after Hurricane Ian.
Swiss Re Capital Markets has been tracking catastrophe bond market performance with its cat bond indices since 2007.
These catastrophe bond indices were the first available to track the cat bond market and so have become a bellwether for those looking for a way to analyse performance of the current set of outstanding 144a catastrophe bonds.
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